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December 25 2017 - 5:00am

Marlborough digs in against defence

Solidarity: Belah Valley grazier Alf Collins spoke out at Marlborough against the defence department's plan.
Solidarity: Belah Valley grazier Alf Collins spoke out at Marlborough against the defence department's plan.

The central Queensland community’s packed public hall was a lonely place for government spokesman and Northern Australia Minister, Matt Canavan, to be as speaker after speaker denounced the proposal to take prime pastoral land out of production for Defence training purposes, which they said would sound the death knell for their small community.

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